Cast
Samantha Morton Kathleen McDermott Raife Patrick Burchell
Credits
Written by: 
Lynne Ramsay
Plot
A supermarket worker finds that her boyfriend has killed himself, and passes off his unpublished novel as her own, then goes on holiday to Spain.
Sinekatalog’s take
Lynne Ramsay's drifting drama follows a woman who passes off her dead boyfriend's novel as her own. Samantha Morton is mesmerising, and the film's sensory soundtrack and images make it a hypnotic, elliptical study of grief.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.8 / 10 (12,661 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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